Why the Philippines isn’t more influential in Asia: corruption, apathy about regional issues and lack of national interest, says new book
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The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State , by Philip Bowring. Published by Bloomsbury Academic Years ago, while taking a friend and other Europeans around the Spanish colonial walled area of Intramuros, in Manila, I was asked by an Austrian, who had clearly done some research: “The Philippines is a big country with a large population, more than 100 million people.…
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